I've been working closely with Neon_Icarus, an aspiring and talented translator, over the past few months on this and I am excited to finally post this--an interview with Radiant Dawn's development staff, conducted by Nintendo Dream and first published in 2007.

Topics of discussion include IS's stance on handheld/console FEs, when Radiant Dawn was first developed and what makes Fire Emblem tick.

And I made perfect use out of her :) It's only too bad that the chapters available to her at first are REALLY detrimental. Indoor maps killing her movement, then swamps keeping her stuck to the beginning of the map... sucks D:

It's probably a general statement :) There are times where you cannot proceed one way without missing an item in another (dual routes in FE6/FE8, for example). A perfect play in generic terms is not passing any content that is perfectly within the ability to retain.

I honestly loved the gameplay. I LOVED the battle animations. They really put the effort there when they improved upon FE9's battle animations. Heck they even joked about how each model has 100-150 animation motions on the interview.

This is all irrelevant to me cuz FE10 was never interesting enough for me to warrant being more than half-awake, animations were off and I slept during the enemy phases often times oversleeping but I'm confident I didn't miss out on much *shrug*

To be fair, when else could Ranulf have dropped the bomb? He was the only one who knew who the Black Knight was, and he had reason to believe that Ike might run into him on the way to the Tower of Guidance, before they met up again.

To be fair, when else could Ranulf have dropped the bomb? He was the only one who knew who the Black Knight was, and he had reason to believe that Ike might run into him on the way to the Tower of Guidance, before they met up again.

Wait, what? You missed the point entirely.

The issue is that the reveal fans had been waiting for for years was simply tossed out there by Ranulf in the first place, that the story couldn't have bothered to make Ike find it out himself in a way that would have been remotely interesting. The issue is that the story handed Ranulf the bomb to drop in the first place; when it happened didn't have anything to do with it.